Stone Circle Look to the future

Quieted by the knowledge she now had, she girl arrived without her usual enthusiasm, thougha smile still lit her face as she settled near her parents. the grey form now had been given a name, and identity and a purpose, and though there was still hurt when she thought of what could have been, what was now was all she could have wished for, a daughter and a sister. a loving family, happiness and friends in the form of her packmates, and there was little more she could wish for.

and yet. she wondered what the woman would have been like. would she have been like her? what would it have been like to have not only her brother, who she loved deeply, but too a sister? and there were thoughts of the bad, thoughts that plagued her dreams for the first night of a shadowy figure, and only the knowledge that such a woman was dead and gone thanks to her father was what had her settle back into a fitful rest.

but now was not the time for such thoughts, for there was much time in which to ponder them, and this was not some of it. she tilted her head curiously as her gaze fell on her parents, wondering why such a meeting had been called.